MICHELLE Heaton will be showing off her fancy footwork on the Strictly Come Dancing floor next year – if Anton Du Beke has anything to do with it.

The Sun Online overheard the pair talking in the toilets at a charity event after Michelle, 37, collared the 50-year-old pro dancer and pleaded with him to help her have a chance at winning the Glitter Ball trophy.

Ruffled … Birds of a Feather star Lesley Joseph and Anton du Beke had to call time on their part in the show

Brave Michelle who rose to fame in Liberty X has had a tough year, after she revealed that she’s hit early menopause after undergoing a double mastectomy and a hysterectomy — and that she expects it to last for a decade.

The mum of two, 37, was diagnosed with the BRCA2 cancer gene when she was 33, meaning she had an 85 per cent chance of developing breast cancer.

The gene is hereditary, and both her grandmother and great-grandmother had died of the disease in their 30s.